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01/24/09 In the City of Sylvia (1)
A thing of real beauty. It works in every way it shouldn't.
Read my review.
A thing of real beauty. It works in every way it shouldn't.
Read my review.
01/24/09 Waltz With Bashir (1)
Features some of the most haunting images put on animated film.
It's a tough, challenging movie that might seem to contradict itself until it reaches its last
wonderful scene.
Read my review.
Features some of the most haunting images put on animated film.
It's a tough, challenging movie that might seem to contradict itself until it reaches its last
wonderful scene.
Read my review.
01/27/09 Sleeping Beauty (4)
It still is gorgeous in every single way, I hadn't seen it in years and it was a pleasant
surprise how refreshing it felt.
Watching with grownup eyes the artistic level of the whole thing is bedazzling.
It still is gorgeous in every single way, I hadn't seen it in years and it was a pleasant
surprise how refreshing it felt.
Watching with grownup eyes the artistic level of the whole thing is bedazzling.
01/28/09 Seven Pounds (1)
Without a doubt one of those films that are so bad that you have to watch it to be sure
how bad it is. Will Smith plays a man who has collected a list of seven people which he's
"helping" all in order to lead us towards his ultimate act of sacrifice for the sake of
humanity. You know this is a "serious" film because Smith, ever the charmer, behaves like
an asshole and/or mopes all the time. Directed by Gabriele Muccino with the sensitivity of
a rock, the film mostly drives itself event after preposterous event shaping Smith's
character like a Jesus atoning for his sins. What remains truly ridiculous and ludicrous is
that the film thinks it's being "narratively ingenious" by slicing past and present and
making the audience try to figure out what the hell things are happening.
With such a terrible screenplay the audience never really becomes interested in any of
the action up there and the narrative tricks are despairing, since anyone with common
sense will know what the grand finale will be judging from two of the opening scenes.
The movie would've resulted average or just mediocre if they hadn't tried so hard to play
with the audience, that a jellyfish gets to be part of one of the twists is only one example
of how preposterous all the events in this movie are.
Without a doubt one of those films that are so bad that you have to watch it to be sure
how bad it is. Will Smith plays a man who has collected a list of seven people which he's
"helping" all in order to lead us towards his ultimate act of sacrifice for the sake of
humanity. You know this is a "serious" film because Smith, ever the charmer, behaves like
an asshole and/or mopes all the time. Directed by Gabriele Muccino with the sensitivity of
a rock, the film mostly drives itself event after preposterous event shaping Smith's
character like a Jesus atoning for his sins. What remains truly ridiculous and ludicrous is
that the film thinks it's being "narratively ingenious" by slicing past and present and
making the audience try to figure out what the hell things are happening.
With such a terrible screenplay the audience never really becomes interested in any of
the action up there and the narrative tricks are despairing, since anyone with common
sense will know what the grand finale will be judging from two of the opening scenes.
The movie would've resulted average or just mediocre if they hadn't tried so hard to play
with the audience, that a jellyfish gets to be part of one of the twists is only one example
of how preposterous all the events in this movie are.
01/29/09 Nothing But the Truth (1)
Kate Beckinsale fulfills the promise of good acting she first made with "The Aviator" where
she did immense things with the little time her character was given.
Here she's practically in every scene and boy does she make it count.
Read my review.
Kate Beckinsale fulfills the promise of good acting she first made with "The Aviator" where
she did immense things with the little time her character was given.
Here she's practically in every scene and boy does she make it count.
Read my review.
01/31/09 Bride Wars (1)
There is something inherently wrong with this movie and it's basically how much fun it
results! Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson play best friends who become fierce enemies
when their dream wedding is scheduled on the same day. As sick as that sounds, the film
makes a point of stressing how these women have dreamt about their weddings since
they were little girls, yes, not their married lives, nor husbands (which is perhaps why
their significant others were casted as random, terribly generic actors) but their
weddings. Because both actresses are so likeable they can get away which things other
actresses might've portrayed as vulgar. Hudson plays the annoying, bitchy, workaholic,
control-y type, while Hathaway is the modest school teacher who everyone likes (that
they get along is testament to how good they are) and if there's a chick flick cliché in the
menú, make sure Gary Winick will use it; from montages, to cute narration (provided by
Candice Bergen who's stuck in the same film role lately) and of course sexy, dorky dance
offs (if you loved Jennifer Garner's "Thriller" in Winick's previous film, this one will be your
cup of tea as well). In the end the film tries to deliver a pseudo-conscious message on the
horrors of materialism and loss of values, but all these elements would've worked like a
satire if they hadn't made these women friends. If they'd been vicious strangers, this
would've worked like a great dark comedy. Those who feel threatened or offended by the
lies about womanhood and love portrayed here should stay away by all means, this kind
of comedy is so harmless it gives itself away in the trailer.
There is something inherently wrong with this movie and it's basically how much fun it
results! Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson play best friends who become fierce enemies
when their dream wedding is scheduled on the same day. As sick as that sounds, the film
makes a point of stressing how these women have dreamt about their weddings since
they were little girls, yes, not their married lives, nor husbands (which is perhaps why
their significant others were casted as random, terribly generic actors) but their
weddings. Because both actresses are so likeable they can get away which things other
actresses might've portrayed as vulgar. Hudson plays the annoying, bitchy, workaholic,
control-y type, while Hathaway is the modest school teacher who everyone likes (that
they get along is testament to how good they are) and if there's a chick flick cliché in the
menú, make sure Gary Winick will use it; from montages, to cute narration (provided by
Candice Bergen who's stuck in the same film role lately) and of course sexy, dorky dance
offs (if you loved Jennifer Garner's "Thriller" in Winick's previous film, this one will be your
cup of tea as well). In the end the film tries to deliver a pseudo-conscious message on the
horrors of materialism and loss of values, but all these elements would've worked like a
satire if they hadn't made these women friends. If they'd been vicious strangers, this
would've worked like a great dark comedy. Those who feel threatened or offended by the
lies about womanhood and love portrayed here should stay away by all means, this kind
of comedy is so harmless it gives itself away in the trailer.
01/31/09 Sweet Bird of Youth (1)
A great adaptation from one of Tennessee Williams' harshest plays. Geraldine Page is
terrific as an aging actress with a young boy toy (a truly gorgeous Paul Newman) who
takes her to his hometown to fulfill a promise. The exotic Florida locale adds to the story in
the same way the South did in most of Williams' work (the boat horns on a key scene add
to the anxiety) and everyone in the ensemble is magnificent. Madeleine Sherwood steals
all her scenes as Ed Begley's loud, bitter mistress and Shirley Knight is heavenly as
Newman's love interest. Even with the Hollywood rehashed finale, the power of the play
and its take on how time is the greatest enemy is absolutely haunting.
A great adaptation from one of Tennessee Williams' harshest plays. Geraldine Page is
terrific as an aging actress with a young boy toy (a truly gorgeous Paul Newman) who
takes her to his hometown to fulfill a promise. The exotic Florida locale adds to the story in
the same way the South did in most of Williams' work (the boat horns on a key scene add
to the anxiety) and everyone in the ensemble is magnificent. Madeleine Sherwood steals
all her scenes as Ed Begley's loud, bitter mistress and Shirley Knight is heavenly as
Newman's love interest. Even with the Hollywood rehashed finale, the power of the play
and its take on how time is the greatest enemy is absolutely haunting.
